Monday, May 30, 2005

pcAnywhere- Review

Quotes from PCMag review:

"Symantec's pcAnywhere 11.0 is best thought of as an industrial-strengthremote-access tool. The product supports a rich array of authenticationand security options, including the ability to create a serializedinstallation that requires both the host and remote machines to havethe same security code....

pcAnywhere's sophistication comes with some complexity,however. We had to alter our firewall settings to pass throughpcAnywhere packets to our assigned host and use DynIP's useful serviceto track our host's dynamic IP address so that we could connect. (Sixmonths of DynIP service comes bundled with pcAnywhere.) If you can dealwith such complexity, pcAnywhere is a solid choice."

pcAnywhere is an excellent product for system administrators, with impressive features and speed. For less tech savvy people, GoToMyPc is probably a better choice.